Blitz Misdirection From Todd Bowles
August 28th, 2025
The Buccaneers’ defensive guru is trying to sell something Joe isn’t buying.
Todd Bowles loves to blitz. It’s in his DNA. He’s blitzed a lot everywhere he’s coached an NFL defense.
But this week on WDAE radio, Bowles said he would prefer not to blitz. What?
In 2019, the Bucs had a combined 34 sacks from their top-3 edge rushers and Bowles blitzed a whopping 43.4 percent of the time, second-most in the NFL. That rate only fell to 39 percent in 2020, the Bucs’ Super Bowl season. The Bowles defense led the NFL in blitzing in 2021.
“If I have four guys that can go get the quarterback, I won’t blitz at all,” Bowles said this week. “It’ll just be coverage and let’em go ahead and go get’em. The simpler you are, the better. We blitz as needed or as we feel like wherever we need pressure from. So, you know, the more horses you got, you let’em run their race. The less horses you got, you try to help them.”
It’s nice to only rush four guys (See February 2021), but Bowles is always going to blitz a lot. And this year will be no exception, even if the four-man rush is working.
Joe would love to see Antoine Winfield get back to chasing quarterbacks, and it’ll be interesting to see if Lavonte David ends up blitzing more often than SirVocea Dennis. Joe also expects to see rookie speedster nickel cornerback Jacob Parrish getting a shot.
August 28th, 2025 at 6:05 pm
Please stop referring to Bowles as a defensive guru…..his defenses’ the past 5 years have been absolutely atrocious
August 28th, 2025 at 6:05 pm
This Todd, he’s something. Im telling you, when he starts costing us games because he keeps dropping pass rushers into coverage, then wth are we gonna do Jason?
August 28th, 2025 at 6:07 pm
Joe, I know you don’t believe him because he said he is not concerned with sacs once. However, I do believe him. In the past especially last year, he had to blitz because that was the only way he could get to the QB. Unforunately that did not work often either and left a vulunable secondary exposed. I do believe he would love to just rush four and get great pressure, who wouldn’t!!. He could do so much more on the back half.
Anyway we will soon see what kind of pressure this D brings this year. Hopefully, much more than last year, otherwise it may be a long season for the defense.
August 28th, 2025 at 6:09 pm
How do you know if you have 4 guys that can get to the QB. When you’re blitzing all of the time. Take Logan Hall for example-, he don’t play on 3rd down. Because you bring in a blitz package, not situational pass rushers. But Logan Hall still had 5.5 sacks. He could get more if he played on 3rd downs.
I’m really tired of Bowles, he makes no sense
August 28th, 2025 at 6:15 pm
Jugheadfla1. Just stop.
August 28th, 2025 at 6:21 pm
No Micah for the Bucs
Super happy about that after seeing the price tag. 2x1st, player, and $44M/year. Green Bay’s window is this year and I don’t think they’re good enough.
The bad news is the price tag on an Edge is ridiculous.
August 28th, 2025 at 6:22 pm
There’s so much wrong with Bowles statement..
We can’t rush
We definitely don’t cover
And apparently a Masters degree is required to play in this Defense. It’s never been simple.
August 28th, 2025 at 6:24 pm
Pretty much what he did in the SB against Mahomes. But we had JPP, Suh, Vea and Shaq.
August 28th, 2025 at 6:25 pm
When OLBs rush the pocket on a pass plays it = a blitz
You can blitz a lot, just sending 4.
What Bowles is talking about is sending a 5th/6th man, we’ve seen both work in his time here. Sometimes to attack, but lately for not having one guy who could consistently pressure on his own. Might have him now, if we’re putting teams in a hole and getting more rush opportunities. He’ll finish the season > 80 blitzes lol
Hope this helps.
August 28th, 2025 at 6:31 pm
SlyPirate – Pass rush is how you win Super Bowls & Parsons may have been the best young player in the league doing it. If we did get him he could of been her for years to come.
August 28th, 2025 at 6:34 pm
The Bucs get more pressure up the middle against the guards
It seems he would keep those 3 on the field
Maybe rotating them out, and dropping the nickel
Or an inside LB, you can play a nickel
But keep the 3 on the interior, and keeping one inside LB
August 28th, 2025 at 6:35 pm
Jughead is spot on…this guy is a joke which im very sorry to say. Shame on Bud Licht and the Glazers for being loyal to a fault…a major fault! I really hope that im wrong but my feeling is that Bowles will be the downfall of a team with a lot of talent. It’s a shame….these are the same owners who fired Tony Dungy for a whole lot less. I love the idea of continuity but not with a mediocre head coach….sickening
August 28th, 2025 at 6:36 pm
So you’re basically playing a 3-3-5
August 28th, 2025 at 6:38 pm
If he ran a 4-3 defense with Hall, Roberts as D ends, what they were in college, Vea, Kancey inside he would have his four man rush. My LBs would be Bullock MLB, David, Dennis, OLB. Morrison, or Dean, Zyon outside, Tykee, Winfield safeties.
August 28th, 2025 at 6:39 pm
Can’t be known as a genius if you keep it simple and put it on the players .
Todd loves his rep as the guru mad scientist. Better to have confused players who constantly bust their assignments.
August 28th, 2025 at 6:42 pm
Shame this team didn’t make any “splash” moves outside of Reddick considering it’s the franchise’s 50th year and Mike Evans and Lavonte David are at the end of their careers
It’s a Bucs Life
August 28th, 2025 at 6:44 pm
Joe … ‘In 2019, the Bucs had a combined 34 sacks from their top-3 edge rushers and Bowles blitzed a whopping 43.4 percent of the time, second-most in the NFL.’
Something doesn’t make sense Joe. The Bucs blitzed a whopping 613 times in 2019 according to Pro-Football-Reference’s Advanced Stats. Of that, our OLBs blitzed 292 times (almost half of our total as a team).
o. Shaq: 174 … sacks: 19.5 … def snaps: 889
o. Nassib: 84 … sacks: 6 … def snaps: 630
o. JPP: 23 … sacks: 8.5 … def snaps: 586
o. Nelson: 11 … sacks: 0 … def snaps: 153
So how does PFR determine that Shaq is pass rushing (doing his job as an OLB) versus blitzing? IOW, why would they ever credit an OLB with blitzing when they’re supposed to be pass rushers? Many JBFers, myself included, have said let the OLBs pass rush more. That’s not blitzing IMO; that’s pass rushing.
August 28th, 2025 at 6:45 pm
But on Bowles blitz package
He loves the 2-4-5 package
Mainly Vita and Kancey rushing the passer
From the interior, and playing the run
With the ILB or Safety blitzing
One OLB dropping into coverage
The other OLB is rushing the passer
The Safeties are either blitzing or playing deep
Everything underneath is wide open for Receivers
August 28th, 2025 at 6:49 pm
With all the glowing predictions of buc success for the upcoming season Bowles has nowhere to hide if things go south
August 28th, 2025 at 6:52 pm
The 27 top sack leaders in the NFL last year might argue it’s not as simple as “sacks win Superbowls” since none of them won one last year.
We had more sacks than the Eagles last season 😳
Not saying we can’t use more pressure from the edges, less 5-6 man rushes…. Just trying to provide perspective 👍🏼
August 28th, 2025 at 6:53 pm
>>Please stop referring to Bowles as a defensive guru…..his defenses’ the past 5 years have been absolutely atrocious
Bucs Defense Rank in Points Allowed, past 5 seasons:
2020: 8th
2021: 5th
2022: 13th
2023: 7th
2024: 16th
So that’s top half of the league every year, and three in the top ten, with last year being an outlier because half the defensive starters were injured. I’m fairly confident you aren’t using atrocious correctly.
August 28th, 2025 at 7:00 pm
The problem isn’t the points allowed
The problem is the total yards all
The time of possession allowed
When you can’t get off the field, it keeps your offense off the field. That’s the key to a great defense,
You can allow less points, but at the same time, you’re allowing your offense less opportunities to score points……
August 28th, 2025 at 7:04 pm
That bend but don’t break defense don’t work anymore
What works is that (Smash Mouth) knock them out defense. The defense that will be at the top of( 3 and Out).
The shut them down defense
August 28th, 2025 at 7:04 pm
Parsons would have helped. He would have looked great in red and pewter, dropping back into coverage, forcing the QB to leave his short or intermediate read and instead, (because he’s got enough time to yawn and stretch) fire the ball down field for a 30 yard gain. I kid…I think…I hope??
August 28th, 2025 at 7:10 pm
Bucs ranked 14th in time of possession. Top half of the league.
Points allowed, along with turnover differential, explosive plays, 3rd (and 4th) downs and red zone is where we turn shlt around 🤞🏼💪🏼
August 28th, 2025 at 7:15 pm
He probably said alll that before Micah got traded. It’s true, if you got a Micah or Simeon Rice coming off the edge, you don’t need to blitz as much and you can play simpler. Weren’t we like 7th in sacks last year with Kancey leading the way at 7.5? That’s schemebut guess what, the extra blitzes exposed our weak Secondary.
August 28th, 2025 at 7:21 pm
I’m not saying Todd Bowles should be fired as a HC
I think heya good HC, developing players and such
But he’s a poor excuse for a defensive coordinator
It’s hard to wear two hats in the NFL
We need a better defensive coordinator
August 28th, 2025 at 7:23 pm
jmarkbuc … ‘apparently a Masters degree is required to play in this Defense. It’s never been simple.’
I suspect that’s the truest statement I’ve read today Jmark. Yet guys like Shaq & JPP seemed to thrive in his system, at both pass rushing AND playing the run. Shaq got 45 sacks in his 70 games here (average of 10.9 sacks every 17 games), and JPP got 33 sacks in 54 games here (average of 10.4 sacks every 17 games). And both played the run very well IMO.
I’m not surprised though that the newest outside guys (like Diaby & Braswell) took awhile to get acclimated to Bowles’ defense. It demands a lot from the OLBs. Nelly isn’t the ideal OLB, but he seems to understand the system very well and makes the most of the def snaps that he does get.
August 28th, 2025 at 7:35 pm
Bowles would prefer to not blitz – so that he can stay in zone coverage 95% of the time (even though his secondary seems much better at playing press man coverage).
August 28th, 2025 at 7:36 pm
The dude stopped Mahomes and the Chiefs in the Super Bowl.
Not saying he is the best DC in the league — but folks acting like his defense is a simple bend don’t break are clueless.
He emphasizes not giving up big plays and keeping things in front of the defense. That is exactly what worked in the Super Bowl.
August 28th, 2025 at 7:47 pm
Lakeland Buc … ‘But on Bowles blitz package. He loves the 2-4-5 package’.
If he’s rushing Vea, Kancey AND 1 OLB like you said Lakeland, wouldn’t that be a 3-3-5? Admittedly we do play nickel a bunch (I read someplace that we played it about 70% last year, but no idea if that’s correct).
BTW if you look at the def snap counts for last year, we had 9 DLinemen on the team at various times last year. They got a TOTAL of 2635 def snaps. Opponents ran 1117 plays in total (including plays on which penalties were called). Those stats tell me that we had an average of 2.36 of those 9 DLinemen on the field for each play (roughly 3 for one-third of the plays and 2 for the other two-thirds). IOW, we were very light on the big dogs on the majority of the plays (probably the passing plays?).
We also had 7 OLBs on the team at various times last year, and they got 2278 def snaps. That tells me that we had an average of 2.04 of those 7 OLBs on the field for each play. For all practical purposes, Bowles used 2 OLBs on every play it looks like. Combine that with the 2.36 DLinemen on each play, and my conclusion is that we lacked the beef on most plays to really pummel the QB. And when Vea was off the field, we REALLY lacked the beef to pummel the QB. And it showed.
One of the reasons BTW I really wanted us to draft a beastly NT to rotate in with Vea. Instead we’re only sitting at 5 DLinemen right now. I’m really hoping that we’re shopping like bandits right now for a Ndamukong Suh-clone.
August 28th, 2025 at 7:56 pm
Hey Lakeland – the amount of points given up by a defense trumps yards given up all day everyday.
August 28th, 2025 at 7:57 pm
“If I have four guys that can go get the quarterback, I won’t blitz at all,”
“So, you know, the more horses you got, you let’em run their race. The less horses you got, you try to help them.”
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Poor guy just doesn’t have enough good players. Prefers not to blitz, Doesn’t want to blitz. But, his hands are tied. No alternative. Backed in to a corner. The cupboard is bare. It’s just not easy being Todd.
Come on Licht get the man some players!
August 28th, 2025 at 7:58 pm
Defense Rules,
I was saying that they take Hall out on 3rd down
They may or may not have the Edge Rusher on the interior
But , in my opinion, that’s still only 2 interior defensive lineman
August 28th, 2025 at 8:11 pm
When you take Logan Hall out, you’re removing a 6’6 300 lbs beast
And you’re bringing in a 5’10 190 lbs nickel
So you’re giving up weight and physicality
So now you’re relying on speed, not power to rush the QB
You shouldn’t sub out an interior defensive lineman
Sub out the ILB, for a nickel, or an OLB
So now we’re looking at a 3-3-5, with the 3 interior lineman
August 28th, 2025 at 8:21 pm
We could have had Reddick and Parsons-Licht- he was clearly available- the chances of two late round #1’s being as good as Parsons in his prime are small-instead we have Bowles with his smoke and mirrors and nonsense- drop Vita Vea into coverage some more- give the receivers a 15 yard cushion- uninspiring- 7-10 clown show
August 28th, 2025 at 8:29 pm
LakelandBuc Says:
August 28th, 2025 at 7:00 pm
The problem isn’t the points allowed
The problem is the total yards all
The time of possession allowed
Yes! And the loss of field position. Which all result in the defense being gassed by the end of the third quarter.
August 28th, 2025 at 8:34 pm
Haters gonna hate.
Bowles dismantling of KC in the SuperBowl was one of the greatest schemes I have ever seen. Slaughtered the Chiefs.
In today’s NFL, Offense wins games. So Licht/Bowles have built a devastating Offense.
Now, they are focusing on the Defense.
That’s smart. That’s adapting to the current conditions in the league.
The Man’s defense won us a Super Bowl. He has won the division every year he’s been a Coach.
No man has ever done that.
Shut up and appreciate winning every season. Ingrates.
If you’d suffered thru the Eighties and Nineties horror show- you’d be thrilled to have a winner every year.
This is still the biggest loser of any pro sports team.
Glad we are FINALLY establishing a winning team.
August 28th, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Hmmm. I wonder if my comment will show up after shift change – 🤔
@Capt.Tim 👍🏼
August 28th, 2025 at 8:54 pm
Sly Pirate…Parsons makes $47 mil a year. Not 44. I think $137 or 8 mil is guaranteed.
They gave up 2 first rounders and Kenny Clark. Clark is a 3 time all pro. However he only had 1 sack last year. This is like year 10 for him.
August 28th, 2025 at 8:55 pm
Pro bowler
August 28th, 2025 at 9:17 pm
The Bucs base defense is basically a 5-2-4, and sending five is considered a blitz, where as Bowles sees it as a base defense meant to stop the run. I’ve always thought that really skews the stats when it comes to blitz percentages.
August 28th, 2025 at 9:21 pm
Lakeland Buc … ‘But , in my opinion, that’s still only 2 interior defensive lineman’.
And I was agreeing with you. Well, on two-thirds of our plays that is.
Fact is that we don’t have enough interior beef rushing the QB. Todd’s blitzing more to compensate, but without the interior guys disrupting the interior & clearing a path, our blitzers aren’t being all that effective on most plays. Worse yet, we’re leaving big swarths of the field undefended, and even rookie QBs are seeing it.
August 28th, 2025 at 9:34 pm
Falcons first drive.
70 yards, 14 plays, 2 runs, 12 passes. Penix 11/12 passing for 66 yards, including a TD on 3rd and goal from the 6. 11 minutes off the clock.
August 28th, 2025 at 9:43 pm
Defense Rules,
That blitz package isn’t working
A RB is bigger than the Bucs blitzer
So teams are picking up the blitz
In my opinion, we should never go with two interior defensive lineman
We are giving up too much weight, and physicality
And then if they see the mismatch,Ike with the Ravens
They gonna run it down our throsty
August 28th, 2025 at 9:55 pm
I’m certainly glad we won our second SB, but you have to ABSOLUTELY take into account that KC was down 2 tackles, Mahomes made some incredible throws that were dropped, and their HC’s son nearly killed a child the week of the game.
All those things contributed. Brady’s presence and playing at home was as influential as anything else.
August 28th, 2025 at 10:18 pm
If we could just get back to a basic 4-3, I think we have the talent to succeed with it. Stop taking players out of their respective positions and allow them to do what they thrive at. I mean, a sneak trick look here and there in a playoff game, i get it. But pass rushers arent made to cover…cover guys arent meant as pass rushers.
And yeah Tim, that was back in the day when he dismantled an injury laden O line….KC was on their 2nds and 3rds and we clearly had more physical players than they could handle, remember that part please.
August 28th, 2025 at 10:28 pm
MadMax Says:
August 28th, 2025 at 10:18 pm
If we could just get back to a basic 4-3, I think we have the talent to succeed with it.
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Well Bowles has always ran a 3-4 — but in reality, the edge guys normally rush on early downs because Bowles cares more about defending the run than the pass. Then, on passing downs, he drops the edge guys into coverage a lot, where they’re generally not very effective — or if he sends edge guys, he has his defensive backs playing such incredibly soft zone defense, the opposing QBs almost always have someone wide open to dump the ball off to if they get in trouble.
August 28th, 2025 at 11:05 pm
On WDAE today, EVERYONE was onboard with the Bucs needing to get this deal DONE, if they get a shot at Parsons… You could really begin to feel and sense the momentum that this could really happen. Then, at 4:00pm today on “NFL Live” you could tell by everyone’s reaction that it was getting close, & literally EVERYONE there, had the BUCS and Packers as their ‘Top-2’ teams needing it most, and was their ‘predictions’ (along with Detroit, but prob not due to CAP – and the Chargers, in THE PERFECT CAP spot). Exciting. VERY EXCITING. Thennnn, while watching USF… ESPN ALERT. “Parsons traded to PACKERS” ($100-MIL Guaranteed/$47-MIL per/ only giving up 2-late 1’s and an older EXPENSIVE prob ‘washed up’ DT). My mood is VERY Somber… Even, after such a huge USF WIN. I was really hoping Chargers, if not us (AFC)… They Should’ve. The Packers Just Fricking STOLE HIM. One of our biggest rivals in the NFC. I am SICK. Disgusted. We could’ve done better than that. Pretty Bad. 💯
August 28th, 2025 at 11:14 pm
I’m assuming that’s why there still hasn’t been a post about it yet, 6-HOURS LATER… I haven’t wanted to talk about it, either. Or, even think about it. It’s Bad. Not good, at all. VERY depressing. SUCKS.
August 28th, 2025 at 11:42 pm
Bunch a Debbie Downers around here, jeeze.
August 28th, 2025 at 11:53 pm
Cowgirls have had Parsons for the past 4 years and have done nothing. He will do nothing this year as a team cuz the Packers suck and very overhyped. Imo
August 29th, 2025 at 1:49 am
“Jp1979”
Oh Yeah!? Hmmmm… 11-6 “Playoff Team” (better than the Bucs) last season in THE ‘strongest’ Division in FOOTBALL, & return most EVERYONE, including another very nice Draft (as they always do). Took a SPEEDY (4.2/40) 1st-Round WR (already a deep room), for the ‘first-time’ in like 100-YEAR LoL. And, oh yeah… JUST Traded for a man named. Micah. Parsons. An ELITE (‘generational talent’) EDGE-Rusher who is just now hitting HIS PRIME. So, yeah…. Ohhkaaay thennnn LoL. A little denial, (&/or) biased much!? JEALOUSY. Hahahah. The type of move that Green Bay NEVER makes. Not much of a free agent destination, AND they always build through the Draft. Prob not since another ‘MAN” named Reggie White. Actually, Micah Parsons is the ‘FIRST-Player’ since REGGIE WHITE, to begin his career with 4-straight seasons of 12+ SACKS. They knew it was a ‘special’ player and move they had to make… A ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ opportunity. And, they took advantage of it by POUNCING. Such a smart, well-run franchise.
August 29th, 2025 at 1:59 am
Oh, yeah “Jp1979” – By the way, Packers Defense last season (2nd-Youngest in the NFL)… SACKS T-8TH, TAKEAWAYS 4TH, TOTAL YARDS 6TH, PPG 6TH.
August 29th, 2025 at 2:04 am
Annndd, Micah Parsons NFL Rankings for “Pass Rush Win Rate” for every year that HE has been in the LEAGUE… 2024, 1ST. 2023, 1ST. 2022, 2ND. 2021, 1ST. “Overrated” Much? Lmao
August 29th, 2025 at 2:24 am
God dang, I forgot they had Josh Jacobs at RB, too!!!! DANG. They are LOADED for BEAR. Geez. It’s an organization trying to WINNNNN. 💯
August 29th, 2025 at 5:07 am
LakelandBuc … ‘In my opinion, we should never go with two interior defensive lineman. We are giving up too much weight, and physicality.’
Again Lakeland, we agree 100%. And the problem is that’s what we’re doing on about two-thirds of our plays. The result was that 2024’s defensive performance was the worst since Todd Bowles 1st year here in 2019. And the ‘blame’ for that falls right at the feet of our defensive coordinator.
I’m very much against head coaches being dual-hatted as coordinators (BA must’ve felt the same because he only had 1 role here … Head Coach). Right now there’s only ONE defensive coordinator in the NFL who’s dual-hatted as his team’s DC … Todd Bowles. IMO the old rule ‘You can’t serve 2 masters’ still applies. I don’t care how hard or long someone works, or how smart they are, there’s only 24 hours in a day, and holding down 2 full-time jobs eventually takes a toll.
August 29th, 2025 at 7:10 am
if that is the case then let LVD be the only linebacker that we blitz and we’re in for a 2014 type season from LVD.
August 29th, 2025 at 7:29 am
“The Bucs base defense is basically a 5-2-4, and sending five is considered a blitz,”
Incorrect, the 2 “edge defenders” count as a 3rd & 4th LINEBACKERS, but in our base alignment look like defensive ends.
Base D is a 3-4 that looks like a 5-man front when lined up(run fit). That’s because we’ll play over/under and line up 3 men from B-gap to B-gap while isolating our LINEBACKERs that play where our DEs would be if we were in true 3-4.
The 5th man is the wild card because he can rush, he can sink into coverage, or he can spy the QB. QB walks to the line, counts the box, sees a 5 man front identifies the Mike, cadanece, snap and now one of the 5 guys with his hand in the dirt is standing where you’re check down is going to be. Sometimes it’s an OLB and sometimes it’s a safety, sometimes it’s a nickel.
That’s the “disguise” part you guys hear of and the positional variations are the “hybrid” part
The house is built like a 3-4, but it’s personnel can be that of a 4-3/Nickel defense because that 5th DB in the grass in certain situations are > an additional rusher and certainly better.
“So how does PFR determine that Shaq is pass rushing (doing his job as an OLB) versus blitzing? IOW, why would they ever credit an OLB with blitzing when they’re supposed to be pass rushers?”
Because the act of taking a linebacker across the LOS is still considered a blitz, no matter what mainstream media call the position to make it more mailable for fans. The rules of the game haven’t changed, but what people know of the game certainly has.
August 29th, 2025 at 7:31 am
Hype season is over. Do the Bucs have a Super Bowl defense? We’ll see. From what I’ve seen from the vets on D, I don’t think so. There are no devastating safeties looking to blow up a play; no intimidating Linebackers, no Sapp-type D-linemen; no Ronde Barber type CB/Slot. This D looks like a run of the mill, pedestrian defense. But, time will tell. Joes you have a jaded audience that hype doesn’t move. Great reporting, however. But, most of us are waiting to see what happens.
August 29th, 2025 at 9:36 am
Sounds like packers got a new Fan. You must go to the packers web site now Melvin we won’t miss you. As to Bowels he needs to come to this Blog to hire his next assistant apparently there are plenty of defensive gurus right here they all seem to know how to make defense better. Smh!
August 29th, 2025 at 10:41 am
“Woodman” – it’s called reality and facts, big guy! Just balls and strikes. No insecure homerism. Just jealous of a a ‘Top Notch Organization’ making smart moves trying to WIN.
August 29th, 2025 at 10:49 am
“Woodman” and, oh… EVERY Bucs ‘insider’close to the team, all afternoon yesterday on WDAE (when all of this was starting to heat up), all said the Bucs SHOULD make this move, that it is a 💯 no-BRAINER. Well, everyone except for Jason “Licked.” The Pack STOLE HIM. And, being a LIAR does not make YOU a “fan.”
August 29th, 2025 at 10:55 am
IF you were a true “fan,” Woodman… YOU would be just as ‘sick’ over this as I am.
August 29th, 2025 at 11:08 am
Everyone is obsessed with blitzing and pass pressure. Remember the Rans playoff game in 2021? When the blitz didn’t work all day, what did the defense keep doing?
Blitzing is great when it works. If it doesn’t, you need plan B if you want to avoid getting picked apart.
August 29th, 2025 at 11:52 am
Bowles is a walking talking contradiction.
August 29th, 2025 at 6:11 pm
A ferocious pass rush is the best pass defense. Bucs do not have a ferocious pass rush. Reddick is not going to be the answer which will be apparent early in the season. Kancey is best hope for DL pressure. Hoping he can stay healthy but he is undersized and will only play 50% of defensive snaps in an attempt to keep him fresh. Agree with the subtractions on defense this year but not enough additions to make meaningful pass defense improvement. Bucs are going to need a high powered offense to stay competitive.
August 29th, 2025 at 8:26 pm
Nobody is scared of Green Bay. We would spank them before, and we’d spank them now
August 29th, 2025 at 11:23 pm
Giving Defense Rules a standing ovation.
Thank you.